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Hab. 5° 5” В. lat., alt. 8600 feet (Andropogon no. 8, App. Speke's Journ. 652), Col. 
Grant ! 
[Nearly 3 feet in height, with pink-purple stems. Stigmas rusty. Found by moisture at lat. 5° 5’ S., 
alt. 3600 feet, where the poor people gather its grain as food.—J. А. С.] 
49. ANDROPOGON HIRTUS, L. ; Kunth, Enum. РІ. i. 492. 
Hab. By the Nile, about 5° N. lat., March 1863. (Cymbopogon hirtus, App. Speke's 
Journ. 652.) А wide-spread grass of the Old-World tropics. 
. [From 2 to 8 feet in height, on the banks of the Nile, at 5° N. lat., March 1863, in flower.—J. A. С. | 
48. ANDROPOGON FINITIMUS, Hochst. So determined in App. Speke's Journ. 652 
(under Cymbopogon no. 1). 
It much resembles that species, which was originally described from Abyssinia. 4. filipendulinus, 
Hochst., which we have from Nigritania, Gen. Munro thinks may be identical. 
[6 to 7 feet high, covering, in July, the flat sporting-grounds on the equator and further north for two 
degrees. Its awn is quite 2 inches long, and the stem is almost solid or woody.—J. A. G.] 
44. ANDROPOGON CYMBARIUS, L. Mant. 303.— Var. bracteis 5-7 lin. longis. 
Hab. Gani, 9? N. lat. (Cymbopogon cymbarius, var., App. Speke's Journ. 652.) Also 
in South Africa and India. 
[6 feet high, growing richly, with its fine head of flowers, under the shade of the trees which thrive 
with luxuriance upon the rocky heights of Gani at 8° N. lat., in December.—J. A. G.] 
45. ANDROPOGON по. 4, App. Speke's Journ. 652, and “ ERIANTHUS AUREUS P Nees,” 
App. Speke's Journ. 652, I leave undetermined. 
[2 feet high, with rather round leaves, their edges hairy. Flowers are stiff and erect in March, at 
lat. 1? 40! S.—J. A. G.] : | | 
Besides the above, Col. Grant observed a bamboo (App. Speke’s Journ. 653, of which I have not seen 
specimens), a sorghum, Indian corn (“ plentiful from 7° 20/ to 42 8. lat., but very rare towards the 
equator, and quite unknown beyond it northwards to 5° N. lat.”), sugar-cane (* seen only on and about 
the equator, the red-stalked variety most frequent ; they make no further use of it than eating the cane ”), 
a second species of Saccharum?, not in flower (used as thatch in Uganda and Unyoro), and wheat 
( never met with from Zanzibar to 15° 30 N. lat., where it is cultivated by irrigation”). 
[We found the wheat or “ Сайте corn” cultivated from 7? S. to 5° М. lat. It is called “ jowaree " 
(Kis), “тайаша” (Kin.), and * doora ^ (Egypt). А coarse, bitter, red variety is principally used 
because birds are not so destructive to it as to the better white grain. Тһе African makes his 
** pombe” (beer) from it. The Waganda ferment their plantain-wine with the grain parched and made 
into flour ; and the excellent bread of the Egyptians is made of the finer kind.—J. A. G.] 
 FILICES ёс. (Ву J. G. BAKER.) 
1. ASPLENIUM FURCATUM, Thunb.; Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 214; App. Speke's Journ. 
654. | 
Hab. Collected in December at 3? 15' N. lat., Col. Grant! Throughout tropical and 
subtropical regions. 
9. ACTINIOPTERIS RADIATA, Link; Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 246; App. Speke's Joum. 
654. 
